February 24, 2010

Yesterday in class we got our first draft back of our annotated bibliography. I didn't realize that I didn't know what inter-country meant. I wondered why it was so hard to find sources I wanted when I entered that phrase in, but now I know. I am now looking for different sources to add to my annotated bibliography and I am adding on to the annotations that work with my topic. I am also fixing the spacing in this assignment and making sure all the sources are in alphabetical order. I didn't write what the source was about and then my opinion on it and how it would help my paper, so I am now going back and doing that. I think I understand this assignment more now that Tess has looked over it and put what I did wrong so I now know what I need to fix. It's slowly but surely getting there.

February 24, 2010

Yesterday in class we got our first draft back of our annotated bibliography. I didn't realize that I didn't know what inter-country meant. I wondered why it was so hard to find sources I wanted when I entered that phrase in, but now I know. I am now looking for different sources to add to my annotated bibliography and I am adding on to the annotations that work with my topic. I am also fixing the spacing in this assignment and making sure all the sources are in alphabetical order. I didn't write what the source was about and then my opinion on it and how it would help my paper, so I am now going back and doing that. I think I understand this assignment more now that Tess has looked over it and put what I did wrong so I now know what I need to fix. It's slowly but surely getting there.

February 23, 2010

My group and I have decided to focus our research observation project on the library. Three out of the four people in our group commute, so we thought this would be the easiest place to make observations about for everyone in our group. We all plan on studying one area of the library at different times so we can see how the library differs with time. Once it is time to do the interview, we are going to start with the same basic question, even though we know that all our interviews will vary. We have also decided to split our power point up evenly and we will do 5 slides per person so that everyone can give their two sense. I am actually looking forward to this project because, it is not the normal assignment and it let's us go out and have some fun gathering our information.

February 16, 2010

Today in class we did the activity with the moon and talked about the annoted bibliography. I am not looking forward to this bibliography because it seems extremely time consuming and very difficult. I do not have all the sources yet either, so I still need to make trips to the library and start searching the web. With the in class activity however, I do think that we did land on the moon, because it seems like there is too much information out there and too many people believing it for it not to be true.

February 4, 2010

I have my topic proposal almost done and ready to turn in for next Tuesday. After my conference, I have decided to narrow my topic down to adoptions that happen within the country. My cousins adopted internationally and that may be an easier topic for me to conquer, but I am up for the challenge and have many questions about what goes on with adopting in the United States. My big question when it comes to adopting within the country is why it is more difficult to adopt in American than it is to adopt internationally. I still have a lot to learn about this topic, but I am so excited to really get the research started so I can learn more.

January 26, 2010

My last post was about the topic I thought I was going to do my paper over. Show choir. I feel like I knew too much about show choir to make it a "research paper." I also couldn't find very many sources in our library on show choir. Since the last time I had to post a journal I have changed my mind. I am now going to do my paper over adoption. I am not in this subculture but my cousin did adopt two babies from Russia. I don't know much about the process itself other than it is a long, tedious process. I guess that will be my main question: what is the adoption process entail? I also want to know if it is expensive and whatnot. I have found books in the library and cannot wait to start researching this topic.

January 21, 2009

Today in class with my group I brought my topic of Show Choir to discussion with them. I was in show choir while in high school and this is a topic I would really enjoy doing some research on. One thing someone in my group told me is that I could see if the new t.v. show "Glee" has made show choir any more popular. Some other questions of mine are who is interested in show choir? What does it take to be a part of a group like this? What does show choir consist of? How did a group like this begin? Fundraising is a big part of show choir, why is this? What part of the country is it most popular in? How does it affect school work? What are show choir competitions like? How are students that are in show choir viewed by their peers who are not? Does show choir keep kids out of trouble because of how much time in consumes? How much does someone need to know about music to be apart of show choir? I haven't thought of one main questions, but these questions will get my brain working and help me decide on one definite question.